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KristaMeth
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16 Oct 2007, 3:23 pm

Kalister1 wrote:
He seems to just attack irrelevant things, so I have to pull out irrelevant information.


Fight fire with fire, I say. You are correct here :D

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You have cool sunglasses :wink:


Also correct. ;) (Wal*Mart for the freakin' win)


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16 Oct 2007, 3:24 pm

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He defines leftist very specifically earlier in the text, which I didn't include.
He isnt saying all of them are like that.
Read it please
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industria ... Its_Future

Ehhhh, its really hard for me to be reading that and stay interested enough to digest any of it. I mean, don't get me wrong, if it was about Egyptian mythology I would be fascinated, but this subject matter is far from my limited interests. If he really was speaking in broad generalities, I'll take your word for it, but from the text you quoted, I would have never guessed it. I just get kinda sore over stereotyping due to all of it I have been subject to by the whole damn world, and I'm not talking about the aspergers. I mean, I am not a politically correct guy, and I joke around about stereotypical or racist stuff with my friends all the time, but I don't seriously believe it.


Yeah. its cool. my forte' is philosophy , sociology, and computer science.
He is just critiquing society and how ideas spread from person to person.
Aspergers would be sort of easy to "stereotype", because there are a lot of traits we share. Though, that isn't the same; we're not passing ideas to one another, we simply have a mental characteristic that shapes our personalities (to an extent)!

Have you read the Book of Thoth? I have the Aleister Crowley one, but I heard there is a different, ancient, version.



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16 Oct 2007, 3:27 pm

KristaMeth wrote:
Kalister1 wrote:
He seems to just attack irrelevant things, so I have to pull out irrelevant information.


Fight fire with fire, I say. You are correct here :D

Kalister1 wrote:
You have cool sunglasses :wink:


Also correct. ;) (Wal*Mart for the freakin' win)


You look artsy, yet punk.



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16 Oct 2007, 3:34 pm

Kalister1 wrote:
Yeah. its cool. my forte' is philosophy , sociology, and computer science.
He is just critiquing society and how ideas spread from person to person.
Aspergers would be sort of easy to "stereotype", because there are a lot of traits we share. Though, that isn't the same; we're not passing ideas to one another, we simply have a mental characteristic that shapes our personalities (to an extent)!

Have you read the Book of Thoth? I have the Aleister Crowley one, but I heard there is a different, ancient, version.

Ok, please tell me the truth, are you changing things in your posts after you post them or am I just not noticing things you say the first time?
Well anyway, I was never a fan of Crowley. I was going to get the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but its kinda hard to understand, most of the books on that subject that I've come across are hard to understand, so for now I'll just stick with listening to Nile, until I'm done with my Norse mythology books.



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16 Oct 2007, 3:35 pm

Yog-Sothoth wrote:
Kalister1 wrote:
Yeah. its cool. my forte' is philosophy , sociology, and computer science.
He is just critiquing society and how ideas spread from person to person.
Aspergers would be sort of easy to "stereotype", because there are a lot of traits we share. Though, that isn't the same; we're not passing ideas to one another, we simply have a mental characteristic that shapes our personalities (to an extent)!

Have you read the Book of Thoth? I have the Aleister Crowley one, but I heard there is a different, ancient, version.

Ok, please tell me the truth, are you changing things in your posts after you post them or am I just not noticing things you say the first time?
Well anyway, I was never a fan of Crowley. I was going to get the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but its kinda hard to understand, most of the books on that subject that I've come across are hard to understand, so for now I'll just stick with listening to Nile, until I'm done with my Norse mythology books.


Nile is good. Norse mythology is excellent, I have Bullfinch's Mythology.

Have you read Beowulf?



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16 Oct 2007, 3:37 pm

Kalister1 wrote:
KristaMeth wrote:
Kalister1 wrote:
He seems to just attack irrelevant things, so I have to pull out irrelevant information.


Fight fire with fire, I say. You are correct here :D

Kalister1 wrote:
You have cool sunglasses :wink:


Also correct. ;) (Wal*Mart for the freakin' win)


You look artsy, yet punk.


Haha, I try. I've got my full fledged mom who's let go of herself look goin' right now. Jeans with paint splatters, some random bleach stained T-Shirt. And where's your picture?!


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16 Oct 2007, 3:38 pm

Kalister1 wrote:
Nile is good. Norse mythology is excellent, I have Bullfinch's Mythology.

Have you read Beowulf?

No, but a friend summarized it to me, I thought that was enough.



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16 Oct 2007, 3:38 pm

KristaMeth wrote:
Kalister1 wrote:
KristaMeth wrote:
Kalister1 wrote:
He seems to just attack irrelevant things, so I have to pull out irrelevant information.


Fight fire with fire, I say. You are correct here :D

Kalister1 wrote:
You have cool sunglasses :wink:


Also correct. ;) (Wal*Mart for the freakin' win)


You look artsy, yet punk.


Haha, I try. I've got my full fledged mom who's let go of herself look goin' right now. Jeans with paint splatters, some random bleach stained T-Shirt. And where's your picture?!


I love to post irrelevant things, yes I do, all day long, ladadadada....


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29 Oct 2007, 9:49 pm

As per a dare from GoatOnFire, I'm gonna defend Cho Seung-Hui here.


Cho slept with the lights on. I have to do that sometimes because I'm so understimulated I'll fall into a black hole if I don't and never come out. The light is a lifeline.


Cho was autistic, just like us.


More evidence understimulation helped make him depressed: he rocked back and forth on his rocking chair for hours while looking out at the window (the light). A roommate found it wierd that he would jsut spend hours staring out at the lawn.


His parents and sister made him worse by minding his differences. If they had just accepted his differences he might not have gotten so depressed.


He might have been hurt when people at the church said he was posessed by demons, or was a demon or something.


He couldn't afford the social life at VT. More understimulation.


Nobody reached out to him. They were scared of him. They assumed the worst.


The fact that the only thing they did was commit him and make him take something (a roommate described him as normal, getting up and taking his medication. What medication? What was he on? Something for his head? Antidepressants? Or antipsychotics?) More people's lack of confidence in him.



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30 Oct 2007, 6:53 pm

Ana54 wrote:
As per a dare from GoatOnFire, I'm gonna defend Cho Seung-Hui here.


In other words, the devil made you do it. :P


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30 Oct 2007, 7:01 pm

I stopped taking orders from fiery goats long ago, all they do is get me into trouble.



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30 Oct 2007, 9:50 pm

I do identify with the shooters though, especially Kimveer Gill and Cho Seung-Hui. Also Kip Kinkel, because he was on antidepressants and his shrink told him to get a gun... mine just mildly said "And then what?" when I talked about shooting up schools, so he's not a security nut either. :D